Re: Reasons for getting the CMT

From: Nae (pithy_at_millenicom.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:25:14 -0400

I think that is a wonderfully realistic attitude and I wish you luck :)

You might want to get in touch with some of the online AAMT members you
can reach them through the AAMT public forum, I believe several of them
are planning to take it and they can be a pretty supportive group :)

http://www.aamt.org/forum/index.php

Nae

JLG wrote:
> Gdubson wrote:
>
>> These are paraphrased off the AAMT website:
>>
>> Promotion of high professional and ethical standards.
>> Improvement of the practice of medical transcription.
>> Recognition of professionals demonstrating competency in medical
>> transcription
>> through fulfillment of stated requirements to keep and maintain the
>> credential.
>>
>> Nowhere does it say that the CMT will get you a job promotion, earn you
>> respect, help you lose weight or get you better pay. Those are things
>> you
>> still have to work for, credential or no. If you got the CMT with the
>> expectation that these things would automatically happen, I don't
>> wonder that
>> you dropped it.
>>
>> Gisele
>
>
> After reading through the previous heated discussion about the CMT exam,
> I finally decided to post. I've been doing this for 20 years and have
> periodically considered taking the exam. Whether we like it or not, the
> AAMT is the only professional representation/organization of MTs that's
> recognized as such. I believe that as more and more transcription is
> outsourced to subcontractors, to services using subcontractors, etc.,
> AND with the concerns of HIPAA and "level of professionalism," if you
> will, that more and more hospitals and hiring entities will perhaps look
> more favorably on those with the credential. You can call it what you
> like and think of it what you like, but it's the only certification that
> MTs can get. I really don't think many doctors in the past knew much
> about it or felt it was worth much, but frankly for many of us, a
> physician isn't the one who's hiring us, a service is, and I think they
> understand what the CMT is. And after that fiasco with the Pakistani
> transcriptionist holding records hostage, I sometimes wonder if more
> hospitals are looking for ways to add to requirements of off-site
> transcriptionists. Yes, I know a CMT wouldn't necessarily prevent such
> unprofessionalism, but it "might," and I think that's what they might
> hope for.
>
> I'm trying to study and prepare now for the CMT exam. I'm not telling
> anyone close to me that I'm going to take it other than my family for
> fear of failing :) And I'll have to deal with that when the time comes.
> My hormonally challenged mind might not be able to accept the failure,
> but I am VERY curious as to how I'll do. And if by some miracle I end
> up passing, I do plan to keep up the credentials with the CEUs. I would
> like to think that at my age I can continue to learn and progress....but
> then again maybe not. I also plan to get involved more in the local
> chapter if only to get out of this freaking home office and meeting
> people who understand what the heck it is I do.
>
> I had no idea that so many people read so much into that exam and the
> AAMT until I started reading through this newsgroup again. Methinks
> it's a lot of OVERthinking.
>
> JG

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